African Elephants: Massive Tusked Mammals

by Rebecca E. Hirsch Narrated by Intuitive

Overview

Find out what an African elephant has in common with a wildebeest. Learn what sets an African elephant apart from a snow leopard. Readers will compare and contrast key traits of African elephants-their appearance, behavior, habitat, and life cycle-to traits of other mammals. Charts and sidebars support key ideas and provide details. Through gathering information about similarities and differences, readers will make connections and draw conclusions about what makes this animal a mammal and how mammals are alike and different from each other.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

"The unusual comparison of mammal traits makes this a series worth considering."―School Library Journal, Series Made Simple

School Library Journal

04/01/2015
Gr 3–5—After establishing basic concepts, four chapters cover physical characteristics, habitat, unique behaviors and life cycle. Each chapter begins with a description of the titled animal, then goes on to compare the subject with several different animals. Grizzly bears are compared to wolverines, three-banded armadillos, wild boars, black-footed ferrets, striped skunks, American bison, jaguars, and titi monkeys. A chart in each chapter summarizes traits of the featured animal with one of the compared animals. A final chart uses six traits to compare all nine animals, three of which are characteristic of all mammals, the others of which are more species specific, such as hibernation (for grizzlies). Other than quibbles with the inconsistent use of scientific terms in the glossaries, the information is, for the most part, clear and consistent. VERDICT The unusual comparison of mammal traits makes this a series worth considering.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940170017768
Publisher:	Lerner Publishing Group
Publication date:	01/01/2017
Series:	Comparing Animal Traits
Edition description:	Unabridged
Age Range:	5 - 8 Years

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